FringeMI Festival
May 30 to June 8, 2025
Nearly 8 thousand participants were involved in the events of the FringeMI Festival, with a schedule that developed over ten days, involving 13 Milan neighborhoods, 65 stages for a total of 216 events with varied proposals aimed at different audiences.
Audiences flocked both to the free shows, from buskers in the squares, to the courtyard of the Polytechnic, to the Feltrinelli Foundation, and — most importantly — to the 22 shows in the official program, which for the first time charged a fee.
“For the seventh year in a row, FringeMI closes with a great success with audiences, which confirms the attention to independent theater and the willingness of people to animate places in their neighborhoods in a different way than usual. We are happy with this unanimous embrace, which testifies to the goodness of our choices and is the best possible result for our work.”
Davide Verazzani, FringeMI Festival
FringeMI Festival 2025 Winner
A volo d’angelo
By Federica Cottini (also directing) with Michelangelo Canzi.
“A volo d’angelo” is ashow that speaks to today by retracing a painful memory of the past. The war in the Balkans mirrors the war of today, and the performance resonates loud and pulsating.
Photos by Alessandro Villa
Stratagemmi Editor’s Award
Umanə
(a performance per fare cose e vedere gente)
by and with Camilla Violante Scheller
“For the development of a hybrid scenic language, capable of disrupting theatrical conventions and returning an immersive, evocative and destabilizing experience. For the ability to blend different stylistic registers with irony and originality. For the radicality with which it interrogates the contradictions of the present, giving voice to a shared feeling of powerlessness in the face of the contemporary and its drifts, without offering answers but opening fractures and relaunching questions. Like a Shakespearean fool, in his prophetic delirium he manages to open a glimpse, however momentary, of reality. For the return to a ritual function of theater that calls the community together to share dilemmas and frailties as a political and poetic gesture.”
Photos by Alessandro Villa
FRINGEMES 2025
FringeMI Festival is coordinated by Bardha Mimòs, which directly organizes the NoLo Fringe Festival from 2019. Added to the map: Adriano Fringe organized by Ecate Cultura, Gallaratese Fringe organized by Argòt Association, Lambrate Fringe organized by ViviLambrate Association. The following are reconfirmed. NoLo, Martesana, Cistà Città Studi – Acquabella, Ortica, Dergano, Calvairate Roman, Villapizzone, Barona, San Siro e Giambellino Lorenteggio.
To conclude, special event venues were added to the FringeMI constellation: the headquarters of AEM Foundation, Feltrinelli Foundation, the Politecnico di Milano, the Ramada Plaza Hotel. Special events were organized directly by Bardha Mimòs.
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THANK YOU
Once again this year, FringeMI Festival has been able to count on the support and proximity of several partner entities that believe in the value and importance of such an articulated and strategic cultural project for our city.
A dialogue that manifests itself in mutual trust and the understanding that the exchange between the business and artistic worlds is capable of creating wealth for the community and the local area. Alongside institutions such as the Municipality of Milano, i Area municipalities e Cariplo Foundation, renewed thanks are extended to AEM Foundation, a partner of the Festival for the third consecutive year, to BPM Foundation which shares the idea that bottom-up and diffuse cultural processes can be an authentic engine of social transformation and territorial enhancement. We were happy to welcome among the Festival’s supporters, Alia Falck Foundation, with whom we share the idea of a living culture that dialogues with communities and generates proximity, care and social impact. Alongside the Foundations, due thanks go to the sponsors, in particular, to Abitare Co., which has embraced this year’s initiative to strengthen ties with neighborhoods, contributing to the development of more cohesive communities through an alliance that comes from and for the land and to KPMG which reaffirms its partnership with the Festival for the third year, sharing common goals and values of social inclusion. Finally, our thanks go to Dott, Mobility Partner of the festival, for his contribution to the spread of sustainable mobility and for making travel between stages more environmentally friendly and accessible with his electric scooters and bicycles.
